Managing the DNS Server
As of version 1.5.0.B1, Coadunation now supplies a DNS server (Domain Name Server). Other examples of dns servers are Bind, DJBDNS, and PowerDNS. A domain name server is crucial to setting up a modern network as it is the daemon responsible for converting the Name such as "www.coadunation.com" to an IP address such as "192.168.1.1".
DNS servers are typically implemented in "C" resulting in platform dependent binaries, and are normally managed via flat file, or by editing a database. This makes them hard to setup and manage.
To this end, the Coadunations DNS server, is implemented in Java making it platform independent and is managed via either the Coadunation Admin Console, which is web based or via web services.
This means that any one wishing to setup a dns server will no longer have to install a unix or linux box to bring up the daemon. They need only select a box, and install the Coadunation Server. It is then only a mater of managing the dns information either via the web console or if so required by web services, or Java RMI.
Features:
- Standard DNS server
- Zone Transfer support (Secondary Server)
- Recursive lookups
- DNS Caching
- Zone Modifications take affect in real time (No Stopping and Starting of the daemon is necessary)
- Web Administation via the Coadunation Adminstation console
- Web Service api to manage DNS server